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Forensic and

Investigative

Sciences Annual

Report

2018-2019

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FIS Undergraduate Program

Profile 4

Internships 7

Research 13

Forensic Science Club 15

Study Abroad 17

Alumni 20

Student Life 21

Awards 22

Parting Words of the Graduates 23

Table of Contents Director’s Message 3

Graduate Program

Profile 24

Internships 25

Research 26

Awards 27

MS Graduates 28

Faculty and Staff

Dr. Christine Picard: Picard Lab Update 29

Dr. John Goodpaster: News from the Goodpaster Group 31

Dr. Nicholas Manicke: What’s Happening with Nick Manicke 34

Dr. Susan Walsh: Work Hard, Play Hard in the Walsh Lab 37

Prof. Gina Londino-Smolar: A Year from the desk of Gina Londino-Smolar . . . 42

Prof. Donna Roskowski: From the Desk of Donna Roskowski 45

Amy Maidi: A Year to Reflect and Refine 48

Funding 52

Publications 54

Presentations 56

Community Service 60

Awards 61

Where Our Students Go After Graduation 62

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The Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program at IUPUI was born in 2004. We

graduated our first students in 2007. Since then, we have graduated 177 BS

students and 51 MS students. In that time, we have grown into cutting-edge

teaching labs, complete with all the instrumentation and equipment used in the

world’s most competitive forensic labs. Why? Because we are committed to giving

our students every opportunity to grow into, embrace and learn the world’s most

well-renowned methods and techniques. We look upon our past nostalgically and

we live in our present with immense passion. That said, it is my goal to

energetically embrace our future by becoming the Top Rated forensic science

program in the Midwest. I plan on doing this by encouraging traditional and non-

traditional opportunities for learning, incorporating research into our curriculum

and working with community partners to advance vital research objectives. With

the support of our dedicated faculty and staff, as well as the best students in the

Midwest, I’m confident we can successfully tackle the challenges of tomorrow.

Director’s Message

Ed Littlejohn

Indiana State Department of Toxicology

Brenda Keller

Indianapolis Marion County Forensic Services

Agency

Carl Sobieralski

Indiana State Police

Indianapolis Regional Laboratory

Mark Ahonen

Indiana State Police Laboratory

Judge Cale J. Bradford

Court of Appeals of Indiana

Major Steve Holland

Indiana State Police Laboratory Division

Denise Purdie Andrews

Axis Forenisic Toxicology

Frances Watson

School of Law

Bill Gorman

Heritage Research Group

Thomas Stucky

School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Jeremy Wilson

Department of Anthropology

George Sandusky

School of Medicine

Greg Smith

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Sonia J. Leerkamp

Attorney at Law

Thank you to our Board of Visitor members!

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Undergraduate Program

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Saint Charles County Police Crime

Laboratory in Missouri, Summer 2019

Crina Krueger

I will be working in the Saint Charles Police Crime learning about both

Forensic Biology and Forensic Chemistry. I will be using different

scientific techniques and machines to help analyze pieces of evidence.

They also said that if there was a trial where evidence was being

presented that I might be able to attend.

Hailey Stacy

Will County Coroner's Office, Summer 2018

This internship was a great experience that allowed for an alternative

perspective to forensic science than a typical internship in a laboratory

setting would.

The most significant part of my internship was being allowed to view and

even assist in autopsies. The forensic pathologists were eager to help me

learn and show me the medical side of forensic science. They showed me

how different parts of the human body react after death and indicated things

that could be signs of a suspicious death.

During my internship I was allowed to assist in the collection and

documentation of information throughout the process of collecting,

examining and releasing a body. I feel I handled myself well when assisting

in this process. It was interesting to see all of the information that is

necessary to compile a death report and prepare a death certificate. I was

also able to assist in minor tasks during autopsies such as recording the

measurements of internal organs and collecting bodily fluids.

I believe that IUPUI's FIS program prepared me greatly for this internship.

The majority of topics that were covered in my first two semesters came up

throughout my internship. I do feel that I would have benefited from a

human anatomy class, but the staff were more than happy to help explain

things when needed.

My only disappointment in my internship was that it ended. I would have

loved to be able to extend my internship or even have been on-call with a

deputy coroner overnight, but my schedule wouldn't allow it. It was a

wonderful educational experience.

Undergraduate Internships

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I learned a lot during my internship at the Saint Charles County Police Crime Laboratory.

It helped confirm my desire to join the forensic science field. The most significant part of

the internship for me was shadowing the forensic biology analyst, because this is the

position I hope to be in one day. We used black light to examine evidence for semen stains

and observed hair evidence under a compound light microscope. The analyst also showed

me a case where they used DNA evidence to help identify a deceased body that had been

badly burned.

In addition to shadowing, I completed a project where I helped validate a new method

for the biologists. They wanted to incorporate a better method for observing acid

phosphatase within semen stains. The acid phosphatase (AP test) helps determine

whether an evidence stain contains semen by undergoing a specific color change. This test can be completed

using different reagents. The reagent I helped validate had a deep purple color change that was more obvious

as a positive result than the former method. It produced a color change faster, and it was more specific

because it was able to test positive for smaller dilutions of semen within a test sample. In addition I helped

calibrate a PH meter for the analysts, explore and observe the chemistry lab, look at the evidence vault, and

visit the ballistics room.

I feel IUPUI prepared me well for my internship. The supervisor informed me he was impressed with my

knowledge and resume. He also indicated my original knowledge base was the reason he felt comfortable

giving me a project to complete while I was within the lab.

These images were taken in the ballistics section of

the crime lab. The picture on the left is of the gun

tank. It is a metal tank full of water where a gun is

fired. The right picture shows how the bullet appears

before and after it was fired. It also displays the

bullet casings. I was able to observe the lands and

grooves on the bullet and determine whether the gun

it was fired from was a left or a right-hand twist. I

also examined the casings for the impression of the

firing pin.

These images were taken when I

shadowed the forensic chemistry

analyst while she was observing the

drug evidence. The left picture is of the

drug evidence that is admitted into the

lab. The picture on the right was taken

after the analyst performed color tests

to identify which kind of illegal drug

had been admitted.

Saint Charles County Police Crime

Laboratory in Missouri, Summer 2018

Christina Martin

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Last summer I learned so much about corporate America and got to meet people from all over the company -

alliance managers, scientists, executive officers.

My main job was to extract and analyze data from medical studies. Say there is a study called Nashton2016

made by head scientist Edwin Nashton (made up name). I'd gather the data from it, enter it in a Power Point,

and have Dr. Hess check it. Rinse and repeat. It sounds easy but it involved a lot of thinking and following an

internal logic when using the PEDRO scale.

I had three projects: data extraction and analysis from clinical studies, project creation in Boston Health

Economics-Instant Health Data, and preparation of Lilly's 2018 Relay for Life. Each clinical study was

assessed according to the treatments used (biologics, chemotherapies, and radiation), the PEDRO scale,

number of patients, and overall and progression free survivals. The Relay required I create ads to be placed

around Lilly campus and create social media posts for the event. I also took part in fundraising and awareness

efforts both before and during the Relay. The BHE-IHD project required I do practice projects to master the

various technical features in the program before creating my very own osteosarcoma project to analyze rates

of osteosarcoma in adolescents and adults (along with other patient demographics and the types of drugs

used). As I had no previous work with the BHE-IHD tool, this was easily the hardest part of my internship.

Still, I learned how to use the tool and made a successful project.

I used previous knowledge in R coding, mathematics, and science (specifically stuff discussed in biology K101

and 103). There were a few new programs I needed to learn and it took me a bit to understand the PEDRO

scale (about two weeks), by the start of July I was full steam ahead with everything and getting a great deal of

work done.

My internship was the highlight of my summer last year, so I am thrilled to be interning with them again this

summer.

Katherine Klamer

Eli Lilly & Company Corporate Center,

Summer 2018 & 2019

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Every day I felt like I learned something new at this internship, and it was

amazing to see what exactly goes on in a forensic laboratory. The most

significant part of my internship was talking with and learning from all of the

forensic scientists I came into contact with. They each have had different

experiences as forensic scientists and were able to give me advice based off of

each of those experiences. I was even fortunate enough to be able to talk to

scientists in other units and see how what they do every day is similar and

different from what the scientists on the drug unit do.

I had an amazing supervisor, Audra Yovanovich, a forensic drug analyst at the

lab. She was great at giving me enough instruction to feel comfortable working

on a project by myself, but I could always still come to her with questions that

came up.

As part of my internship I compiled all of the newly scheduled fentanyl analogs and added these analogs to a

database initially by my supervisor. The information added to the database included each fentanyl analog's

name, date the analog became controlled, and the chemical structure of each analog. Besides this project I

also had the privilege to experience what court was like, sit in on multiple mock trials, and go to other units

to learn how they processed and went through evidence. I enjoyed everyday I spent at the ISP lab and am

happy to say I will remain in contact with Audra to help me finish my studies and hopefully find a job in

forensics once I graduate.

As a result of my internship, I was given the amazing opportunity to present at the Midwestern Association

of Forensic Scientists (MAFS) Annual Meeting hosted in Indianapolis. I was able to sit in on additional

presentations and the end of the week round table discussions where drug analysts from all over the Midwest

discussed procedures unique to their labs and possible improvements for the future. I appreciate all that I

learned from every drug analyst I spoke and listened to.

Cory Hagemier

Indiana State Police Laboratory, Spring and Summer 2018

Summer 2019 Undergraduate Internships Callista Maguire, FBI, Indianapolis, IN

Molly Pederson, FBI (Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate), Washington, DC

Danielle Vargas, Will County Sheriff’s Department (CSI), Joliet, IL

Jenna Wade, Mitchell Police Department (Drugs), Mitchell, IN

Elexis Shields, Amanda Siegal Laboratory (Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Institute Grant),

Indianapolis, IN

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FIS Undergraduate Research

Student Faculty Mentor Project

Heather Gordon Dr. John Goodpaster GC/VUV of Drugs and Adulterants

Payton West Dr. John Goodpaster GC/VUV of Explosives

Magnus Rydberg Dr. John Goodpaster Packed Capillary GC

Emily Hulsey Dr. George Sandusky

Dr. Catherine Sears

Using Whole Slide Digital Imaging for Detection of

Early Development of Lung Cancer in a Mouse Model

Paige Wallace Dr. Susan Walsh Phenotypes in Eyebrow Color for Genome Wide

Association Analyses

Gabriela Ovalle Dr. George Sandusky Causes of Sudden Cardiac Death in Central Indiana

from 2013-2017

Paige Howard Dr. James Marrs Independent Research with Zebrafish

Callista Maguire Dr. George Sandusky Quantification of CD8, CD68, PD-L1, and PD-1 via

immunohistochemistry, using Susan G. Komen tissue,

Normal Adjacent tissue, and Breast Cancer tissue

Christina Martin Dr. Christine Picard Genomics of Development Rate Variation in Blow Flies

Jessica Harris Dr. Christine Picard Literature review of the progress made in digital

evidence in the last decade

Dr. John Goodpaster Towards low activity silica gas-solid 20 µm

micropacked capillary gas chromatography

Elexis Shields Dr. Amanda P. Siegel Characterizing Blends with Recycled Plastics for 3D

Printing

Molly Pederson Dr. William Thompson Osteocyte-Specific Deletion of the a2d1 Auxiliary

Voltage Sensitive Calcium Channel Subunit

Max Jacobsen Dr. George Sandusky Comparison of Image Analysis Quantification of APE-1

by Immunohistochemistry in a Bladder Carcinoma

Tissue Microarray

Danielle Vargas Dr. Christine Picard NAS Report Project

Cory Hagemier Dr. Nicholas Manicke LC-MS/MS Detects Urobilinoids from Feces in Fly Guts

Clarissa Hartman Dr. Susan Walsh An Optimized Method of DNA Extraction from FTA™

Classic Card for Downstream Sequence Analysis

Cassandra Sluis Dr. Broxton Bird High-Resolution Lake Sediment Archives of Climate-

Society Linkages in the Midcontinental United States

Kiyomi Kukoyi Dr. Frederique Deiss Electrochemical Paper-based Detection of Chlorate for

Explosives Assessment

Alexis Bloom Dr. Sophie Paczesny Potential Biomarkers for Chronic Graft-Versus-Host-

Disease (cGVHD)

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FIS Students in Dr. George Sandusky Research Group Presenting at the

American Association for Cancer Research Conference

Calli Maguire

Emily Hulsey

Max Jacobsen

Gariela Ovalle

Dr. George

Sandusky

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This year, the Forensic Science Club at IUPUI is excited to state that it was a good year for the organization.

The club participated in several on-campus and off-campus outreach events often promoting STEM careers to

school-age children and incoming IUPUI students. We took steps to improve membership recruitment and

retention with successful results.

Forensic Science Club

Celebrate Science: Mem bers

volunteered with Dr. Christine Picard and

her lab at Celebrate Science on October 6

helping at her Maggot Art table. Attending

children were able to use maggots to paint.

Circle the City hosted by Girl Scouts of America:

Held at the Indianapolis State Museum on October 20.

The Forensic Science Club had a fingerprinting booth.

Members of the Girl Scouts came to learn about

fingerprints, their application to forensic science, and

information about IUPUI’s Forensic and Investigative

Sciences Program. This was a successful event with

several hundred attendees.

National Chemistry Day at the Indianapolis Children’s

Museum: An event the club participates in every year is

National Chemistry Day at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.

This year it took place on November 3, and the theme was

“Chemistry is out of this World.” Unfortunately, it was difficult to

identify a good forensic-themed activity which was also related to

space. Therefore, we came up with an activity for the attending

children to create their own bath bombs. All materials used were

safe for the kids and we had at least 6 members volunteer in

order to watch them. The bath bomb ingredients were put

together ahead of time and the kids could pick what colors they

wanted to make the bath bomb similar to a galaxy.

Off-Campus Events

On-Campus Events

In recent years, the Forensic Science Club has been attempting to improve our on-campus image and improve

campus awareness of our existence. At the two different welcome events and at Regatta, we had a table with a

tri-fold board explaining our organization, who the current officers were, and various events we participate in.

Tenth Annual IUPUI 2018 Regatta: W e had a sm all

activity for attendees to play where they spun the wheel,

read a statement, and answered whether it was true or

false. If they missed, they had another chance. If they won,

they received an organization cup with a short paragraph.

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This past year was an eventful one, and in the upcoming academic year, we hope to continue improving our

member retention and campus awareness. In doing so, we hope to participate in more on-campus events.

This past year has gone well, and we look forward to next year!

Involvement Expo during Weeks of Welcome

Murder Mystery Dinner: Our biggest event of the year , the Murder Mystery Dinner , w as on

April 18, 2019. Our theme this year was Jack the Ripper with an exciting twist naming a woman as the

murderer! The turn out was amazing with plenty of attendance and good reception to the dinner this year.

School of Science Welcome Picnic

School of Science Greatest Night in Science

Dum-Dums on Valentine’s Day

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During summer 2018, I had the remarkable opportunity to study

abroad for a month in Greece with College Year in Athens and learn

about the Bronze Age Mediterranean for my classical studies minor.

This experience truly changed my life; from the breathtaking views to

the vibrant culture and intriguing classwork, I returned to the United

States a more knowledgeable, well-rounded, and independent person.

On this trip, I spent two weeks in Athens and a week each in Santorini

and Crete. Athens was a beautiful blend of remnants of ancient glory

and modern city living. The gorgeous island of Santorini showcased a

variety of unique beaches, breathtaking sunsets, and the city of Akrotiri

buried in volcanic ash many thousands of years ago. Crete hosted many

remnants of bronze age civilizations surrounding the vivacious city of

Heraklion. Although each new location offered new tastes, smells, and

sights, the locals were always very friendly, welcoming, and ready to

start up a conversation!

Traveling to a country completely by myself where I knew not a single

person was definitely anxiety inducing at first. However, throughout

the trip, I learned how to start conversations with strangers, navigate

my way around places I had never been to before, and solve my own

problems. Moreover, the coursework that I took while abroad far

exceeded my expectations and assumptions of lectures in classrooms,

worksheets, and exams. Instead, we had a volcanology lesson on top of

an active volcano, discussed the technology of bronze age Crete

standing on top of a Minoan Palace, and gave presentations about

ancient burial rituals inside of the very tombs being examined.

Interacting with coursework in such an engaging way inspired me in a

way that no other class has before. My passion for ancient history

blossomed in such a positive and interactive learning environment.

Furthermore, travelling internationally and exploring a culture

previously foreign to me broadened my cultural awareness and has

solidified my love of travel. I guarantee that I will travel abroad in the

future as much as possible!

Overall, I had the most amazing time meeting people, trying new

things, and learning, and I cannot wait until I am able to visit this

beautiful country again. Studying abroad is an amazing and inspiring

experience like no other, and one that I would highly recommend to

any student.

Jocelyn Blackburn

Study Abroad: Greece

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Cory Hagemier

Study Abroad: London, England

I traveled to London with the Kelley School of Business on their

Brexit, Business, and Brits study abroad trip, which lasted one

week and occurred during spring break of the 2017-2018 school

year. We had the amazing opportunity to see several historic sites

during the trip, including St. Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge,

Tower of London, the London Stock Exchange, the U.S. Embassy

in London, the Bank of England, Windsor Castle, Stonehenge,

Oxford, Westminster Abbey, Palace of Westminster, and many

other amazing places. This trip is one of my favorite memories

during my time at IUPUI and would recommend going on a study

abroad trip to anyone who is able.

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This past June I was fortunate enough to be able

to study abroad in Wexford, Ireland along with

another FIS student, Kali Stevens. The title of the

class was Dead Men Do Tell Tales. This class was a

hands-on forensic archaeology and Forensic

Anthropology course. We had a simulated burial

site and had to map the burial site, map and

exhume the skeleton, and determine age, sex, and

ancestry of real human remains. It was an amazing

experience to be able to stay with a homestay

family and be immersed into the Irish Culture. We

were able to go as almost a field trip to see a local

light house and a pub in downtown Wexford. I

encourage anyone who feels like they might want

to travel abroad to do so because the benefits are

so broad.

Kristina Steward

Study Abroad: Wexford, Ireland

The students that attended the Dead Men Do Tell Tales

seminar in June 2018. Kristina Steward and Kali

Stevens both went on this trip.

One of the simulated burial sites.

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Alumni

Highlights

Ashley Riley graduating from medical school

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Student Life

Mock Trial

On campus

Fun in the lab

Regatta

Campus Center

Faculty and students at the School of Science picnic

Forensic Science and Law Courtroom visit

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Maggie Granatir

Siegel Award

Awarded to the top student in FIS 20500 Concepts of Forensic Science I in honor of Jay A. Siegel, Founding Director

of the IUPUI Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program.

Fallon R. Stinson

Academic Achievement Award:

This award is given for outstanding academic achievement, including high GPA and challenging course enrollment.

Paige L. Wallace

Forensic & Investigative Sciences Outstanding Research Award

This award is given to an outstanding student who has demonstrated excellence in research with commitment and

desire to advance the field of Forensic Science.

Clarissa M. Hartman

Student Leadership Award

This award is presented to a student who has demonstrated leadership and service in the Forensic and Investigative

Sciences (FIS) Program and/or the Forensic Science Club.

FIS Undergraduate

Awards

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I really enjoyed my time in the program. The staff is so supportive and helpful. It feels like a little family and it's nice in such a big school like IUPUI

I absolutely LOVE the program, and am really, really glad I came here! I will always be grateful for the education I got here!

I'm thankful for this program and all the opportunities it has provided!

I have had a great time in this program and really enjoyed my advisor Amy!

The program was fantastic for the most part and all Forensic Science professors were fantastic

I have enjoyed all four years with the FIS program and I'm so glad I chose IUPUI to complete my degree. It was the best choice I could have made and I'm glad I'll be around for another two years.

FIS Seniors Ready for the FSAT Exam

Parting Words of

the Graduates

Class of 2019

It was a long journey, but a good one at that.

FIS Seniors at Graduation

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Graduate Program

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Graduate Program

I completed an internship with the Indiana State Police Laboratory

(biology) division this Spring. One of my main assignments was re

-designing the posters used for public tours in the biology section.

While my undergraduate degrees had already prepared me with

the basics of forensic biology, this opportunity allowed me to see

the specific procedures of a crime lab, including the specific

instrumentation and updated protocols not always seen in an

academic setting. It also gave me practice in independent work

followed by presenting my findings, as I was then instructed to

present my posters to the analysts and supervisors who would be

referencing them throughout their future tours.

As analysts can obviously not bring the public through the lab's

workspaces for danger of contamination, the posters I created are

meant to be a visual aid to an analyst's description of their day to

day duties in the lab. Accompanied with pictures and non-

technical explanations, these posters are meant to provide a

succinct and understandable explanation of forensic science to the

general public. Additionally, I was also tasked with summarizing

50 DNA methods manuals for use in reviewing old cases. Often,

supervisors and analysts are called to review old cases that contain

old DNA methods and terminology. It was my job to review the

past 50 manuals of ISP laboratory and summarize the DNA

analysis and interpretation methods, combining them into one

single document. This way, analysts do not have to dig through a

pile of manuals just to determine what "^10" meant in their 2008

PowerPlex protocols. In fact, I made three versions of this

document, each subsequent copy more condensed than the next

per analyst request. Even so, my shortest copy was over 100 pages

long! It just goes to show how much interpretation is necessary on

the part of the DNA analyst, and how frequently these methods

change in the ISP laboratory.

Doing this internship while also being a full-time student meant

that I was always keeping busy. However, I feel my projects gave

me a real sense of accomplishment and will leave ISP a quality

product from my time with them. I am certainly looking forward to

the free time I will gain come the end of my time with ISP, but I

don't regret it in the slightest.

Indiana State Police, Spring 2019

Case Jacobus

Graduate Student Internship

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Graduate Program

Graduate Research Student Faculty Mentor Project

Courtney Cruse (PhD) Dr. John Goodpaster GC/VUV of Explosives

Zack Roberson (PhD) Dr. John Goodpaster GC/VUV of Controlled Substances

Ashur Rael (PhD) Dr. John Goodpaster Packed Capillary GC

Jackie Ruchti (MS) Dr. John Goodpaster Combining chemical analysis with DNA Typing

Kymeri Davis (MS) Dr. John Goodpaster Total Vaporization Solid Phase Microextraction (TV

SPME) of Controlled Substances

Charity Owings (PhD) Dr. Christine Picard Carrion as a Mediators of Blow Fly Population

Structure

Anne Andere (PhD) Dr. Christine Picard Sex Chromosome Structure and Function

Ioanna Koltsidou

(PhD)

Dr. Christine Picard Quantitative Genetic Characterization of Antecedent

Conditions of Taste and Odor Episodes in Eagle Creek

Reservoir

Laura Doll (MS) Dr. Christine Picard Population Structure of Insects Dependent on

Ephemeral Resources

Brandon Bills (PhD) Dr. Nicholas Manicke Development of New Methods for Synthetic Drugs

Greta Ren (PhD) Dr. Nicholas Manicke Screening for Synthetic Drugs in Emergency Room

Patients

Christine Skaggs (PhD) Dr. Nicholas Manicke Development and Validation of Therapeutic Drug

Monitoring Methods

Charley Sexton (PhD) Dr. Nicholas Manicke Protein and Peptide Detection by Mass Spectrometry

Sarah Dowling (MS) Dr. Nicholas Manicke Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents and Drugs in

Environmental Samples

Bill Wichert (Post Doc) Dr. Nicholas Manicke Detection of Protein Toxins and Drug Residues from

Surfaces

Ryan Eller (PhD) Dr. Susan Walsh An Investigation into the Genetic Basis of Visible Hu-

man Traits and Their Prediction from DNA

Bailey Wills (MS) Dr. Susan Walsh DNA Methylation and Its Impact on Pigmentation

Phenotypes

Noah Herrick (PhD) Dr. Susan Walsh Skin Tissue Depth and Landmarks of the Human Face

for Its Prediction of Ancestry

Racquel Hopkins (MS) Dr. Susan Walsh BMI and Regulatory Genetics Markers

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Graduate Program

Bailey M. Wills

Charles (Chuck) Gould Memorial Scholarship: This scholarship is nam ed for Charles (Chuck)

Gould, who was an FIS graduate student and an analyst with the Indianapolis Marion County Forensic Ser-

vices Agency (IMCFSA). Established by his family in his memory, this scholarship is given to the top second-

year graduate student in the FIS program.

FIS faculty & advisor with all FIS student award winners

and FIS lab graduate student award winners

FIS Graduate

Student Awards

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Graduate Program

FIS Graduate Students Ready to Be Hooded at Graduation

FIS MS Graduates

Faculty & Staff

The Picard Lab has had yet another busy and successful year, and the lab is going to see

some major changes coming up. We welcomed a new MS student in Forensic Science

(Laura Doll) in the fall, and she’s hard at work on insect population genetics (and will be

working on a civil case later on in the summer) – and has at least 1 project completed and

nearly ready for publication and already has a poster presentation under her belt!

Research

The lab was recently funded by the National Geographic Society for an exploratory grant on the uses of

carrion insects to survey vertebrate biodiversity, and we will be heading to the Smokey Mountains and

Yellowstone National Park this summer to test our hypotheses. We made a preliminary trip in the summer of

2018 and even discovered a new species of squirrel not previously recorded in Yellowstone, this was

accomplished by only sampling flies for 3 days. I was on bear duty while PhD student Charity did the

collecting – turns out you need to be especially vigilant when tempting

bears with our super smelly fly bait. We are excited to return and expand

our sampling scheme. National Geographic Society has also provided

some supplementary funds for me to attend and present at the

International Congress of Conservation Biology in Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia in July. Serendipitously, while Charity was presenting her

research at the Entomological Society of America meeting in Vancouver,

BC, a program officer from DARPA became interested in the work we are

doing in the environment, and Nick Manicke and I have submitted a

proposal to expand upon that work.

The lab continues to increase our genomic footprint, with some additional genomes generated over the last

year that include a new species in our repertoire: the yellow mealworm! This work was through a

collaborative agreement with an insect production company out of Seattle, and this collaborations continues

for the next few years via some DARPA funding. Though not forensically relevant, it is an important species

to environmental sustainability and alternative protein production – which leads me to my newest research

endeavor: the formation of a new NSF Center on Insects as Food and Feed – we’ll be having our planning

meeting in the fall, this is a multi-site Center between IUPUI, Texas A&M University and Mississippi State

University – the IUPUI site will be focused on the genetics and genomics of these insects.

Picard Lab Update

Laura Doll

Picard Lab (left to r ight):

Kyle Turner (BS 2019), Ioanna Koltsidou (MS 2019),

Christina Martin (BS 2020), Charity Owings (PhD 2019),

Christine Picard, Anne Andere (PhD 2019), and Laura Doll

(MSFS 2020).

Dr. Picard on bear duty

Faculty & Staff

Teaching

I was back in full swing starting the fall semester off co-teaching the introductory forensic science survey

course to the graduate students (FIS 50500) with Dr. John Goodpaster. I also got back to teaching my

graduate forensic biology class (FIS 52100) and this past spring, I was busy teaching the MS students how

to find gaps in knowledge and propose research projects that would advance our knowledge. The students

have done a great job handling this challenging class.

Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists Fall Annual Meeting

Presentation

Faculty & Staff

News from the Goodpaster Group

Teaching

I taught FIS 51100 (Chemical Analysis of Alcohol and Drugs) in Fall 2018 and FIS

40400 (Forensic Chemistry II) in Spring 2019. These are core classes for our

graduate and undergraduate forensic chemistry students, respectively. Both

courses have a lab section and I am very grateful to Donna Roskowski for teaching

FIS 51101 and Jackie Ruchti for teaching FIS 40401. I coordinated the FIS Seminar

in Fall 2018, and we featured speakers such as:

Tina Beymer and Dana Bors (Indiana State Department of Toxicology)

George Schiro (Scales Biological Laboratory)

Myran Tuceryan (IUPUI School of Science)

Fran Watson (IU School of Law)

Gregory Smith (Indianapolis Museum of Art)

Research

Research in the Goodpaster Group is currently focused on two techniques: Total Vaporization Solid Phase

Microextraction (TV-SPME) and Gas Chromatography / Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (GC/VUV). We are

currently supported by three grants from the National Institute of Justice to pursue this work:

Perforated Steel Panels forming a "cage" in which IEDs

are placed and exploded, thus capturing as many post-

blast fragments as possible.

Sponsor Project Title

National Institute of Justice

Identification Of Low Explosives

and Their Post-Blast Residues Via

Gas Chromatography (Gc) Coupled

with Vacuum Ultraviolet (Vuv)

Spectroscopy


Identification Of Drugs In Pow-

ders, Liquids, and Plant Material

via Total Vaporization Solid Phase

Microextraction (Tv-Spme)


Coupling Gas Chromatography

(GC) and Vacuum Ultraviolet

(VUV) Spectroscopy for Forensic

Applications

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Goodpaster Research Lab

Heather Gordon, GC/VUV of drugs

and adulterants

Payton West, GC/VUV of Explosives

Magnus Rydberg – Packed capillary GC

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What’s Happening with Nick Manicke The past year was an exciting one in terms of both teaching and research. My

research group consists of one FIS masters student (Sarah Dowling), four

chemistry PhD students (Brandon Bills, Greta Ren, Christine Skaggs, and Charley

Sexton), and one postdoctoral researcher (Bill Wichert). Sarah is on track to

graduate this summer. She has been accepted into the chemistry PhD program at

IUPUI and has decided to stay on for her doctorate. Brandon Bills is also on track

to graduate this summer; he will be the first PhD student to graduate from my

group. We’ve had a productive year in the laboratory, and I was pleased to publish

several papers, including papers in Forensic Chemistry and the Journal of

Analytical Toxicology. I also taught FIS 40100 Forensic Chemistry I in the fall

and FIS 512, Forensic Chemistry II for graduate students, in the spring.

Research

My research program focuses on bioanalytical and forensic chemistry, with a particular focus

on the development of novel mass spectrometry related technologies.

Several students in the group are developing new techniques for forensic and clinical

toxicology. In one project, Brandon Bills developed a mass spectrometry method for the

detection of fentanyl analogs and synthetic cannabinoids. This work formed the basis for

our publication in Forensic Chemistry.

In another project, we are working with the medical director of the Indiana Poison Control

Center to develop methods to screen for emerging designer drugs such as synthetic cannabinoids and bath

salts. This project has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and will also be supported by the IU

Grand Challenge: Responding to the Addiction Crisis for the next four years.

We are also collaborating with a Department of Defense laboratory to develop better methods to detect

chemical and biological warfare agents. Sarah Dowling has taken the lead on this project. She has developed

methods for monitoring chemical warfare agent hydrolysis products, fentanyl analogs, and pharmaceuticals

from environmental samples such as soil and water. She gave a podium presentation at AAFS (American

Academy of Forensic Sciences) this spring. She has another talk at the ASMS Annual Meeting (American

Society for Mass Spectrometry) this summer presenting similar research in a session on homeland security

and defense applications of mass spectrometry.

Finally, Bill Wichert published a paper in the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry on

detection of protein toxins from surfaces using wipe sampling. This article will appear in an upcoming focus

issue on emerging investigators.

Service

I served as the chair of the graduate student recruitment committee and as a member of the technical

facilities committee for the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

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Teaching

This past year I taught FIS 40100/40101 Forensic Chemistry I in the spring and FIS 51200/51201 Forensic

Chemistry II in the spring. FIS 40100 is the first of our two-semester forensic chemistry sequence required

for our forensic chemistry undergraduate students. It dealt with the important chemistries and instrumental

techniques for analyzing drugs and forensic toxicology. I also taught FIS 51200, which is our graduate level

course on instrumental analysis of trace evidence. The course is cross-listed as a graduate course for

chemistry students; several graduate students in chemistry enrolled in the course in addition to forensic

science majors. I also ran the FIS 51201 lab, which gives our masters students a great chance to work

independently on various instruments to analyze trace evidence. Students analyzed gunshot residue using

SEM-EDX, performed quantitative analysis of drugs in blood by HPLC-MS/MS, used GC-MS to classify

ignitable liquids from fire debris, and analyzed fibers using identification FTIR microscopy.

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An excerpt from the article

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Students & Their Projects

It has been a good year filled with fun and some solid research that I can’t wait to get

published. Mirna Ghemrawi, my second FIS MS student completed her studies in the

summer of 2018 and is now furthering her education in a PhD program at Florida

International University under Dr. Bruce McCord. We have already begun talks on

projects that can overlap the two labs. Mirna’s thesis work on the Lebanese population

(with collaborators at NIST in Washington DC) has some final ancestry work being

performed on it by Noah Herrick, my bioinformatics PhD student (transferred from

MS to PhD) and we hope to submit this summer.

Noah Herrick is also working on skeletal thickness measures of the face with

CBCT imagery with collaborators in IU Dental school and IUPUI’s computer

science department for facial landmarking automation. Noah recently submitted

an NIJ fellowship grant that we hope will be funded that will assess landmarks

of the face for the inference of ancestry from 3D imagery data. He also presented

his work on a preliminary study on Post-Mortem Interval (PMI) estimation from

RNAseq data at the American Society of Human Genetics conference in San

Diego in 2018.

Stephanie Farmer, My Biology MS student graduated in December after a great

defense in which she discussed her work on Y-STRs and Irish surname links

with Viking heritage. This work was presented in Poland in 2018 and she also

worked quite closely with the Department of Defense (DOD) to uncover the

identity of an individual found in a colonial burial site. This was very exciting

work to do as it combined genetics with our online investigative skills using

genealogical sites. Both research projects are close to completion and we aim to

publish the Irish surname project with our Irish collaborators, and the skeletal

identity using the Y chromosome project with our DOD collaborators this

summer.

Bailey, my third FIS MS student, is due to complete her training in June this

year. She has done a great job presenting some of our sequencing research at

American Academy of Forensic Scientists (AAFS) in February and has been a

wonderful addition to the lab (and as a TA for forensic genetics!). Bailey and

Krystal (my previous MS student) are co-first authors on a recently submitted

paper to FSI-genetics on the work they did together. Bailey has been

instrumental in performing casework for the laboratory, with one cold-case

that apprehended a suspect, although our work did not directly aid in identity it

was very helpful to the investigators who kept us up to date during the entire

investigative process which was extremely interesting for Bailey and I. Bailey’s

thesis will also comprise of data from a DNA methylation project and a

proteomics project that is ongoing.

Racquel Hopkins began her Biology MS degree in Aug 2018 and is currently

researching Body Mass Index through human massive parallel sequencing of a candidate region with the

Berbari Lab. Racquel is also interested in human skin color variation and further enhancing the HPS model to

represent more non-European skin color variants that we find from our spectrophotometer measures.

Work Hard, Play Hard in the Walsh Lab

Stephanie Farmer presenting

at the Haploid Markers

Conference in Poland

Bailey Wills at the National

AAFS Conference in Baltimore

Dr. Susan Walsh ready

for the Halloween party

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Ryan Eller my PhD student is finishing up his PhD this year and therefore is extremely busy writing and

completing several large collaborative GWAS analyses on pigmentation and facial morphology. Ryan together

with our collaborators at KU Leuven in Belgium, Penn State, Pittsburgh and Stanford University have just

completed the largest successful GWAS currently performed on cranio-facial morphology and found over

200 variants. This work is currently being written up by our collaborators with Ryan writing up our portion

of the paper on modeling methods. We are hoping for a high impact journal with this exciting work. He also

recently presented his work on his Odyssey pipeline at the ASHG. Odyssey was recently accepted to BMC

Bioinformatics.

Lastly, our laboratory baby, the genome:phenome database is growing well, with >3500 individuals collected

within Indiana and >1500 outside of Indiana (Brazil, Lebanon, Ireland). Due to recent NIJ funding we will

continue to expand this resource.

The lab currently has 2 Bio PhD, 2 MS (1 Bio, 1 FIS), 2 undergrads (FIS/BIO) and 1 Freshman. 2 MS (1 Bio, 1

FIS), 1 FIS MS non-thesis and 3 undergrads (2 FIS, 1 BIO) completed this past year.

Overall, I miss all my students when they leave, but it amazes me that even though students leave the lab,

they are never really out of reach as we will all still chat on Slack, no matter what part of the country they are

in. We still keep each other filled in on our research and career paths which is great.

Research Collaborations

The lab is continuing collaborations within IUPUI, with Computer Science (Prof. Shiaofen Fang), and

Anthropology (Dr. Jeremy Wilson), including IU school of Dentistry (Prof. Katherine Kula). Noah is taking

the lead here with this project collaboration on facial thickness and

automated landmarking for which we now have a stand-alone program in

beta. We hope to further develop this program and if successful with the

fellowship that Noah has submitted, he will try to build an ancestry

prediction tool using these landmarks. We have our big collaboration with

KU Leuven (Peter Claes), Penn State University (Mark Shriver), University

of Pittsburgh (Seth Weinberg) and Stanford University (Joanna Wysocka)

that I hope will produce some big publications for Ryan and the lab this

year from our multiple projects. We also have a long-standing collaboration

with Erasmus MC (Manfred Kayser) that we have been consistently

churning through projects with. Our collaborators in QIMR Brisbane

Australia (Nick Martin) have completed provisional iris color replication

and we have now begun expanding the iris GWAS to have over 6k

individuals with digital imagery to really solidify our signals.

Lastly, we are in talks with a commercial company on how to push forensic DNA phenotyping to practitioner

laboratories by aiding in the development of commercial products.

Talks & Publications

It was a good year for invited talks, and I hope this continues in 2019/2020 as I would like to travel to more

conferences to present. I thoroughly enjoyed being Discussion Leader on the Age, Appearance and Ancestry

session at the Gordon Research Conference this past summer. It isn’t too often that I must be the one to

oversee and manage my former PhD mentor! I also spoke more locally this year, at Indiana University,

IUPUI, UIUC, Wabash College and the MAFS conference held here in Indianapolis. Each one of my graduate

students (final year MS or PhD any year) presented either a poster or gave a talk this year which is great for

their career and exposure for the lab.

Collaborators from the Walsh Lab,

Penn State University, and KU

Leuven (Belgium) meet up at

ASHG Conference in San Diego

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The lab was lucky enough to publish 5 articles since this time last year – Nature Ecology & Evolution,

Investigative Dermatology, 3 x FSI-G. I hope to double that number this summer as Ryan has a

bioinformatics paper accepted with revision, we recently submitted HPS-MPS to FSI-G and are in the midst

of writing 3 papers concurrently, so it is a great time of year to get things finished!

Teaching

As always, what a super busy spring semester. I finally got to split up the undergraduates and graduates for

Population Genetics which is great as I was able to utilize the computational server I recently bought with

Biology, to really show the Graduates more hands on bioinformatics. They even got to use their own data,

from ancestry.com, 23 and me or if they were involved in my study over the years. It was a very exciting end

to the semester when they got to work with whole genome sequence data and really explore various files types

using several computational tools. Let’s hope they liked it when I read the class reviews! ;)

Grants

I was lucky enough to obtain a new NIJ grant for 3 year’s worth > 650k as PI with my co-PI Mark Shriver. The

grant will support our work on understanding and predicting human facial morphology. I am also a

subcontractor on a recently submitted DARPA grant with a commercial company that I hope will also be

funded as it would secure genotyping funds that will really push research to product.

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Clarissa Hartman IUPUI Research and

Engagement Day

Ryan presenting his research at

IUPUI Biology Seminar

Biology Department Grads and Profs Baseball

Day Out

The Walsh Lab at Dr. Walsh’s House

Halloween Lab Party

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News Agencies

All over the

World Report

on Discoveries

in the Walsh

Lab

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Over the past year I have split my time in half between Forensic and

Investigative Sciences and Teaching and Learning Technologies. I continue to

teach both introductory courses in forensic science, concepts in forensic

science 1 and 2, during the fall and spring semesters as well as online during

the summer. I am also the faculty member of two sections of windows on

science, a first-year seminar course, during the fall semester with one having a

bridge component, a 2-week student experience before classes start in August.

I have been participating in service to the university through a community of

practice group and a distance education committee as well as serving the

forensic science community as program chair of the general section of AAFS.

Teaching Related Accomplishments

I continue to update my teaching in the classroom by exposing my students to current events in forensic

science, new technologies available in the classroom, and reviewing my assessment standards for each course.

The second semester concepts in forensic science course, FIS 20600, went through the General Education

Core review during the spring semester. This passed the review process and will continue to be a general

education core course for all students at IUPUI.

I have reviewed and rewritten the Student Learning Outcomes

for all the FIS General Education Core courses. This is related

to the campus’s creation of IUPUI+, Profiles of Learning for

Undergraduate Success. This replaced the Principles of

Undergraduate Learning and Principles of Co-Curricular

Learning last spring. I have helped design new FIS Program

Level Learning Outcomes (PLOs) and mapped these with the

IUPUI+. All of the Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) from

each FIS core course, required of all majors, were then

mapped to a FIS Program Level Learning Outcome. This will

extend to all FIS course SLOs being mapped to a FIS PLOs and

IUPUI+ and then identifying a key assessment from each

course that measures each SLO. This will be a great tool which

we can use in our accreditation review this fall.

Amy and I continued to teach freshman seminar courses specifically for forensic science

majors directly admitted into the FIS program, one with a summer bridge component.

This has been a great experience for each cohort, and I continue to see these students on

campus together.

I continue to teach online over the summer sessions and have been updating my

courses. I plan to go through the Quality Matters process to have both my online

courses assessed and certified. I have served as both an external and internal reviewer

and plan to complete the Master Reviewer course.

Last spring, I was awarded the Trustees’ Teaching award through the School of Science.

I also received the highest achievement, Gold medal, for the Gateway Teaching Academy

this fall.

A Year from the desk of Gina Londino-Smolar…

Receiving the Gold

Medal Award for

Gateway Teaching

Academy

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In October I applied for FACET, Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching, which is a

dynamic, collaborative community of distinguished faculty throughout Indiana University.

This is a community of faculty from across campuses that address challenges of collegiate

teaching developing and sharing strategies to enhance pedagogy and practice. Members

are expected to contribute their experience and skills to FACET activities and programs. I

was accepted into this elite group of teaching faculty from across the state of Indiana and

am 1 of 14 new members in 2019. New members are inducted at the FACET annual retreat

in May.

Service Participation

This past February I completed my third year as the Program Chair of the General Section

of the AAFS. This included reviewing all abstracts for orals, posters, workshops, and

breakfasts submitted for the 2019 annual meeting. I built the schedule for the General

Section 2-day program of all oral and poster presentations. I plan to continue my

involvement with the General Section of AAFS. I have been appointed the Chair of the

Disciplines Committee for the section and will serve on my first Academy wide

committee on the digitalization of meeting workshops and presentations. I completed

my three-year term as the treasurer for the Council of Forensic Science Educators

(COFSE), which I have served since 2012, and we elected President-Elect at our

meeting in February.

I have continued to serve as the chair of the IFC Distance Education

Committee and Community of Practice on Academic Integrity and participate

in outreach through our community. I have participated in multiple science

nights at local elementary schools (see the Community section).

I have also been asked to speak in the community both for Science on Tap and

for the Forensic Series as the Indiana Medical History Museum. Both talks

focused on Forensic Trace evidence and the myths behind the role of hairs and

fibers in case work.

Indiana Medical History

Museum Lecture Hall

I was honored

to be promoted

to AAFS fellow.

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New Position with Teaching and Learning Technologies

I have worked on three major projects during this past year while with the Teaching and Learning

Technologies Team.

I have continued to work on the Academic Integrity Canvas Sites for both undergraduate students and faculty

and teaching assistants. The student site has been available since November 2017 and currently has over

4000 enrolled students. The faculty and teaching assistant site will hopefully be completed by the end of the

academic year and will be incorporated into the new faculty orientation process. During this project, I have

led the design on multiple non-credit Canvas sites focused on academic integrity (UG student-facing and

faculty/teaching assistant-facing). I lead a team of 5 faculty, 3 staff from the Center for Teaching and

Learning, and various instructional designers to develop, refine, and maintain standalone Canvas sites. I

have also presented our work at multiple conferences and published the work that we have done.

During this past year I have also been developing an IU Online Webinar Series – Continuing the

Conversation. This was started following the IU Online conference with various faculty from multiple IU

campuses. I was able to find IU online teaching faculty and learn about the tools and techniques used in

online courses. These webinar and resources were created resources in through ProfessorPedia. This

semester I recorded 4 webinars with faculty from IU Kokomo, IU South Bend, IU Bloomington, and IUPUI.

One of the biggest projects that I have taken on is to develop an online laboratory course. Non-science majors

are many times required to complete a laboratory experience, having an option for distance learners is a

needed resource for the growing online student population. I have led a team to start the initial design of an

online laboratory course to be able to submit a proposal through the Center for Teaching and Learning. I

received a grant through the CTL to develop this course and the funds will be used to hire a student worker,

purchase kits for a pilot of the course, and to present work at an online teaching conference. I have helped

plan virtual field trips for a forensic science laboratory and online geology laboratory course. I have also

worked with different hands-on laboratory companies that produce kits designed for online learners. I plan

to continue the creation of this course, Investigating Forensic Science, throughout this year and hope to offer

a pilot of the course in Spring 2020.

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From the Desk of Donna Roskowski This year has been eventful! I have given many tours, successfully passed a

General Education Credit audit of my lecture course, taught my first classes on-

line, and made some serious adaptations to my courses to accommodate a visually

impaired student.

I have been with FIS for three and a half years now. There is still a bit of a learning

curve for me, and I seem to have a never-ending supply of new and interesting

challenges every semester.

Teaching

FIS10100 and FIS10100 Investigating Forensic Science

Both classes are taught during Fall, Spring and now Summer semesters. During the Summer and Fall of

2018, I taught an on-line section of FIS10100. This worked really well and I am fairly pleased that things are

running smoothly! I hope to continue offering this course on-line during Summer I and Fall semesters. I

continue to add and make some improvements to the way I run this course. The changes I have made seem

to be working well. I am in the process of administering exams throught the class Canvas site and using the

testing center, rather than giving exams on paper or on scantron forms. This should allow for a faster grading

and reporting process. Utilizing the testing center for final exam will allow students the flexibility of

scheduling their exams during finals week.

The FIS10101 laboratory class continues to be very popular. When I started at IUPUI in the fall of 2015, the

class was running two or three sections. I am now running seven and will possibly run eight in Fall of 2019.

This class is taught in Spring, Summer and Fall semesters. I have two undergraduate Teacher’s Assistants,

Clarissa Hartman and Emily Baker, and three graduate student TA’s, Laura Doll, Samantha Guinn, and Bobbi

McGlone. My goal for this year, and for the years ahead, is to utilize Work Study eligible students as Teacher’s

Assistants. This saves our program a great deal of money and helps our students!

During the Spring semester, I had a visually impaired student in both FIS10100 and FIS10101. Since I had

this situation before in the lab, I was prepared and had the course adaptations completed. However,

converting the lecture course proved to be much more complicated that it should have been and support from

the University was slow, if present at all. I made a completely new course site just for this student, with

FIS 10101 Students analyzing handwriting and inks

TA Clarissa Hartman helping students calculate

Retention Factors on Thin Layer Chromatography

plates.

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adaptations of my in-class assignments in a format that can be ready by this student and his laptop! It is an

on-going project, as we are always making adjustments to figure out what works, and what doesn’t. I’m happy

to report that it is working very well. As part of the adaptations, I bought voice recognition software and a

headset with a microphone (at my own expense) to transcribe some of the reading material. This worked

really well and I’m quite good at it! I apparently impressed the AES (Adaptive Education Service) people

because they offered me a job, which I declined. I was able to hire one of our FIS students, Jessica Harris, as

an aide for this student to help him in class. She has done a fabulous job and I am hiring her as a Teacher’s

Assistant next year!

FIS 51101 Forensic Chemistry

I taught the FIS51101 Forensic Chemistry lab for the third time during in 2018. It was a class of three

students. This class covers some toxicology, statistics and drug analysis. I’ve based many of the labs on the

same training materials I used during my training and tenure at the Indiana State Police Laboratory. I’ve

added a Ultra-Violet Spectrophotometry lab, which made the schedule a bit tight and added a couple of

demonstrations that the student really liked, as these were timely in that it seemed to coincide nicely with Dr.

Goodpaster’s lectures and enhance the students understanding of the material. I really enjoy this small class

and interaction with the students. The schedule is still a bit tight, so I will continue to make adjustments. All

of the students are doing well, but they are really working for it!

FIS 49600 Independent Study

Graduate students are starting to ask about Independent study with me. I had one student in the spring of

2016, have my second in the spring of 2019 and I anticipate one more in the summer of 2019. This is a great

opportunity for students and for me as well. Currently, I have my student working on a Headspace Gas

Chromatograph instrument manual and revising my blood alcohol lab exercise for FIS51101. She is also

creating user drug libraries on the FTIR and GC/MS in the Teaching lab (EL135). Most of semester has been

frustrating due to an alignment issue on the headspace unit, so we are both learning how to fix that! My next

student will pick up where we leave off on these projects; create a drug user library on the RAMAN

instrument; and other instrument maintenance and repairs.

Student Ryne Robinson and FIS Student/Aide Jessica Harris

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Campus Involvement

As part of my job, I am the Safety Officer and sit on the Campus Chemical Hygeine Committee. I am proud to

report that the FIS Program laboratories continue to receive glowing inspection reports! It shows that we

continue to follow the rules, and are vigilant in our laboratory operations.

I continue to function as the program purchaser, as well as keep track of the lab drug, supply and chemical

inventories. This was another expensive year for us in that our enrollments were up again, and we needed a

lot of supplies and small equipment for our increasing numbers of students with the same operating budget

that we have had for at least three years.

Last year, I assumed responsibility for programming the proximity cards for the FIS SELB laboratory locks.

This year, I have learned to hire and process the FIS TA’s, so I will be doing that from now on. I also have

been tasked with the search for a replacement for the Chemistry Department Instrument Engineer position.

That position is much like my own, except that position does not have teaching responsibilities. In the

meantime, I am on deck to cover some of the duties of that position as needed.

I am completing my third year as a faculty mentor/advisor for the Alpha Phi Omega Tau Omicron (APO-TO)

Fraternity. Alpha Phi Omega is a co-ed service fraternity that was formed based on principles of the Boy

Scouts of America. They are a fun and energetic group. As of this year, I am the Advisory Chair for this

group, helping them through their struggles to grow and maintain membership. I look forward to working

with them on and off campus.

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A Year to Reflect and Refine—Amy Maidi

I set some goals this year, and they were ambitious. It has been a

wonderful journey of reflection and refinement.

Coaching

I participated in three coach training programs this year. My desire

was to refine my skills and add more tools to my student support tool

box. There were students who I knew could do well, but were not able

to reach their potential. I had tried many approaches, but none really

helped until I started taking coaching workshops. I am now certified in

two different approaches to coaching and became a coach trainer. Soon I will begin studying for

the national board certification exam. As part of this journey, I took on a group of students to

coach the whole year. The students set the agenda in these meetings to explore the areas they

wanted to go from good to great. It was a powerful way to connect and refine my skills as an

academic advisor. I was amazed at how effective it was. Here is a quote from one of my coachees:

Teaching

Capstone: I continue to teach the senior

capstone class. I had the joy of co-teaching this

year with two amazing PhD students, Charity

Owings and Zachary Roberson who mentored

the students on scientific research and poster

presentation. I was Zachary’s advisor starting

from his first year, so it was gratifying to see

how much he has grown into a mentor for

others. He is pictured at the capstone poster

session. Some feedback:

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Freshmen Seminar and Bridge: W e have continued the experiment w e began in 2016 of having

an FIS freshmen seminar. This year we once again had all FIS freshmen. Prof. Londino-Smolar and I co-teach

an extended seminar which starts two weeks before classes begin and a standard class. We combine the

classes to ensure the students all meet and do projects together. As an advisor, I can see the multitude of ways

this is impacting the students’ sense of belonging by creating friendships, study groups, and roommates.

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Professional Development, Awards, and Promotion: I w as

honored to be selected IUPUI Academic Advisor of the Year. This was

such a privilege as my fellow science advisor, Jane Alexander nominated

me. As the winner I was the nominee for IUPUI to the NACADA national

award. After a 67 page application, I am thrilled to share I won the

NACADA Certificate of Merit. I will be going to the national conference

in October to receive this award. I have also been awarded a Staff

Council Professional Development Grant to help pay for the conference.

One of my goals this year was to take on the enormous task of going up

for promotion to senior academic advisor. In the three years this

process has been in place, only four people have been promoted. I am

pleased to say I am one of the four.

I was part of a group of four advisors and two advising administrators

who were awarded a Welcoming Campus Initiative Grant to explore the

issue of how to better create a sense of belonging in students admitted to

University College. Through the grant we held an institute where nearly

every school on campus attended to have focused work time on how they

could better welcome students who are not initially admitted to their

school. Since the institute, we have accepted applications and awarded

seed money to schools to operationalize their plans. We were chosen to

present a poster about our work at the Welcoming Campus Conference

and will be presenting on the process of being an agent of change in

education at the All-IU EDGE Conference as well as at the national

NACADA conference in October.

It has been a year to truly reflect on the work I love. Writing a 116-page

dossier for promotion gave me a lot of time to consider how I would like

to improve and grow. I love the process of improvement, so I am excited

to see how much better we can make the experience of every FIS

student.

FIS graduates and I at the School of Science Ignite

event at the Indiana State Museum

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Dr. Christine Picard

National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. Planning: Center for

Environmental Sustainability using Insects (CESIns). PI: CJ Picard, $14,496. (3/2019-2/2020)

Department of Defense Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. SBIR Phase II , PI: CJ Picard, $134,565.

(2019-2021)

IU Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Chemical Analysis of DNA Methylation in Adult Blow Flies, Co

-PI: CJ Picard, JV Goodpaster, $2,535. (2018-19)

National Geographic Society. Environmental Drones: Blow Flies as Indicators of Vertebrate Diversity and

Abundance, PI: CJ Picard, Co-I: WP Gilhooly III, NE Manicke, A Banerjee, $19,695. (2019-2020)

Prof. Gina Londino-Smolar

School of Science Graduate Technology Funds. Acquisition of Cameras for Student Microscopes, PI: Gina

Londino-Smolar, $40,000. (2019)

Dr. Susan Walsh

National Institute of Justice (NIJ). Ensuring Standards and Enhancing the Field of Predictive Biometrics

Using a Globally-Diverse Genotype-Phenotype Database, PI: S Walsh, Co-PI: M Shriver, $651,242. (2019-

2021)

NIJ. An Investigation into the Genetic Basis of Human Facial Morphology and Its Prediction from DNA,

Using a Globally Distributed Panel of Individuals from the US and Europe, Co-PI: S Walsh and R Eller,

$116,040. (2016-2018)

Indiana University Research Support Funds Grant. Collection of human skeletal facial soft tissue thickness to

assist phenotype prediction for forensic and anthropological applications, $34,812. (2018-2019)

Dr. John Goodpaster

NIJ. Identification of Low Explosives and Their Post-blast Residues via Gas Chromatography (GC) Coupled

with Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Spectroscopy, PI: JV Goodpaster, $150,000. (2019-2021)

NIJ. Identification of Drugs in Powders, Liquids, and Plant Material via Total Vaporization Solid Phase

Microextraction (TV-SPME), PI: JV Goodpaster, $96,469. (2019-6/2020)

NIJ. Coupling Gas Chromatography (GC) and Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Spectroscopy for Forensic

Applications, PI: JV Goodpaster, $390,473. (2018-2021)

USAC. Analysis of Fuel and Tire Materials, PI: JV Goodpaster, $26,883. (4/2014-9/2019)

National Hot Rod Association. Chemical Analysis of Racing Fuels and Track Adhesive, PI: JV Goodpaster,

$28,759. (2013-2020)

Funding

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Nick Manicke

Indiana University Grand Challenges. Chemical Surveillance System for the Synthetic Drug Crisis, PI: N

Manicke, Co-PIs: DE Rusyniak, K Comer, $1,160,000.00. (10/2018-7/2022)

National Institute on Drug Abuse. Sensitive and Rapid Screening of Synthetic Drugs by Mass Spectrometry,

PI: N Manicke, $410,669. (2/2017-1/2020)

NIJ. Development of Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Acetyl Fentanyl and Synthetic

Cannabinoids, PI: N Manicke, $144,968. (8/2016-9/2019)

United States Army. Paper Spray Ionization Methodology Support, PI: N Manicke, $465,001.05. (5/2016-

5/2019)

Thermo Finnigan. Applications Development and Substrate Research for Paper Spray Technology on the

Thermo Mass Spectrometry Platforms, PI: N Manicke, $186,676. (3/2017 – 3/2019)

IU Collaborative Research Grant. A multidisciplinary approach to a spatially and temporally explicit model of vertebrate ecosystem community structure using carrion insects, PI: CJ Picard Co-PIs: N Manicke, W Gilhooly, R Banerjee, $73,000.00. (5/2018-11/2018)

Faculty & Staff

Publications

Sardar, R; Liyanage, T; Rael, A†; Shaffer, S; Zaidi, S; Goodpaster, J.V. Fabrication of a self-assembled

and flexible nanosensor for explosive detection at parts-per-quadrillion levels from fingerprints. Analyst

2018; 143(9), 2012-2022.

Turner D.A.†; Williams M; Sigman MA; Goodpaster, J.V.. A Comprehensive Study of the Alteration of

Ignitable Liquids by Weathering and Microbial Degradation. J. Forensic Sci 2018; 63:58-65. (chosen by the

journal’s associate editors as a “2018 Noteworthy Article”)

Fuenffinger, N., Goodpaster, J.V., Bartick, E., Morgan, S. Classification Strategies for Fusing UV/visible

Absorbance and Fluorescence Microspectrophotometry Spectra from Textile Fibers. Microscopy and

Microanalysis, 2018; 24(S1), 1168-1169.

Ash, J.; Hickey, L.; Goodpaster, J.V. Formation and analysis of novel derivatives of primary amines and

zwitterionic drugs. Forensic Chemistry 2018; 10:37-47.

Martinez-Lopez, C., Trejos, T., Coulson, S., Goodpaster, J.V., Igowsky, K., Kuczelinis, F., Mehltretter, A.,

Pollock, E., Simmross, U., Weimer, R., Weis, P., Almirall, J. Interlaboratory evaluations of the performance of

elemental analytical methods for the forensic analysis and comparisons of electrical tapes. Forensic

Chemistry 2019; 12: 66-77.

Cruse, C.; Goodpaster, J.V. Generating highly specific spectra and identifying thermal decomposition

products via Gas Chromatography/Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (GC/VUV): Application to nitrate ester

explosives. Talanta 2019; 195: 580-586.

CG Owings, A Banerjee, T Asher, WP Gilhooly III, A Tuceryan, M Huffine, C Skaggs, I Adebowale, NE

Manicke, CJ Picard. Maximal results w ith m inim al effort: blow flies as vertebrate resource

indicators. Scientific Reports (Under review).

S-S Yang, W-M Wu, AM Brandon, H-Q Fan, JP Receveur, Y Li, Z-Y Wang, R Fan, RL McClellan, S-H Gao, D

Ning, DH Phillips, B-Y Peng, H Wang, S-Y Cai, P Li, W-M Cai, L-Y Ding, J Yang, J Ren, Y-L Zhang, J Gao, D

Xing, N-Q Ren, RM Waymouth, J Zhou, H-C Tao, CJ Picard, ME Benbow, CS Criddle. (2018) Ubiquity of

polystyrene digestion and biodegradation within yellow mealworms, larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus

(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Chemosphere, 212: 262-271.

Owings, CG, Picard, CJ (2018). New Distribution Record for Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann (Diptera:

Calliphoridae) in Indiana, USA. Journal of Insect Science, 18: 8. https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iey071.

Londino, GM, Low e, S, W endeln, K , Sturek, D, Prom oting academ ic integrity through a stand -

alone course in the learning management system, International Journal for Educational Integrity, Springer

Nature, United States, vol 14, issue 13, 11 pages. December 27, 2018. https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/

articles/10.1007/s40979-018-0035-8.

Londino, GM, Do students understand academ ic integrity?, SmartBrief, United States, 2

pages. Submitted: December 15, 2018, Published January (1st Quarter/Winter) 22, 2019. https://

www.smartbrief.com/original/2019/01/do-students-understand-academic-integrity.

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S Brace, Y Diekmann, T Booth, L van Dorp, Z Faltyskova, N Rohland, S Mallick, I Olalde, M Ferry,

M Michel, J Oppenheimer, N Broomandkhoshbacht, K Stewardson, R Martiniano, S Walsh, M

Kayser, S Charlton, G Hellenthal, I Armit, R Schulting, O Craig, A Sheridan, M Parker Pearson, C

Stringer, D Reich, M Thomas, and I Barnes. Ancient Genomes Indicate Population Replacement in

Early Neolithic Britain. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2019.

Peng F, Zhu G, Hysi P.G, Eller R.J, Chen Y, Li Y, Hamer M.A, Zeng C, Hopkins R.L, Jacobus C.J,

Wallace P.L, Uitterlinden A.G, Ikram M.A, Nijsten T, Duffy D.L, Medland S.E, Spector T.D, Walsh

S, Martin N.G, Liu F, Kayser M. Genom e -wide association studies identify multiple genetic loci

influencing eyebrow color variation. Investigative Dermatology 2019.

Pośpiech E, Chen Y, Kukla-Bartoszek M, Breslin K, Aliferi A, Andersen J.D, Ballard D, Chaitanya L,

Freire-Aradas A, van der Gaag K.J, Girón-Santamaría L, Gross T.E, Gysi M, Huber G, Mosquera-

Miguel A, Muralidharan C, Skowron M, Carracedo Á, Haas C, Morling N, Parson W, Phillips C,

Schneider P.M, Sijen T, Syndercombe-Court D, Vennemann M, Wu S, Xu S, Jin L, Wang S, Zhu G,

Martin N.G, Medland S.E, Branicki W, Walsh S, Liu F, Kayser M, EUROFORGEN-NoE Consortium.

Towards broadening Forensic DNA Phenotyping beyond pigmentation: Improving the prediction of

head hair shape from DNA. Forensic Sci. Int. Genet. 2018.

Kukla-Bartoszek M, Pośpiech E, Spólnicka M, Karłowska-Pik J, Strapagiel D, Żądzińska E, Rosset I,

Sobalska-Kwapis M, Słomka M, Walsh S, Kayser M, Sitek A, Branicki W. Investigating the impact of

age-depended hair colour darkening during childhood on DNA-based hair colour prediction with the

HIrisPlex system. Forensic Sci. Int. Genet. 2018.

Chaitanya L, Breslin K, Zuñiga S, Wirken L, Pospiech E, Kukla-Bartoszek M, Sijen T, de Knijff P, Liu

F, Branicki W, Kayser M, Walsh S. The HIrisPlex-S system for eye, hair and skin colour prediction

from DNA: Introduction and forensic developmental validation. Forensic Sci. Int. Genet. 2018

Owings, C, Skaggs, C, Sheriff, Winyu, Manicke, N, (Author), Picard, Christine J., (Author), Chemical Assay

for the Detection of Vertebrate Fecal Metabolites in Adult Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae),

Environmental Entomology, vol 47, pp. 586-593. 2018.

Bills, B, Kinkade, J, Ren, G, Manicke, N, The Impacts of Paper Properties on Matrix Effects During Paper

Spray Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Prescription Drugs, Fentanyl and Synthetic Cannabinoids, Forensic

Chemistry, vol 11, pp. 15-22. 2018.

McKenna, J, Jett, R, Shanks, K, Manicke, N, Toxicological Drug Screening using Paper Spray High-

Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry (HR-MS/MS), Journal of Analytical Toxicology. 2018.

Faculty & Staff

Presentations Underlined indicates student presenter

Dr. John Goodpaster

JV Goodpaster. “Derivatization and Identification of Controlled Substances via Total Vaporization Solid

Phase Microextraction (TV-SPME) and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry,” The Pittsburgh

Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2019

JV Goodpaster. “Identification of Nitrate Ester Explosives and Their Thermal Decomposition Products by

Gas Chromatography/Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (GC/VUV),” The Pittsburgh Conference,

Philadelphia, PA, March 2019

JV Goodpaster. “Identification of Explosives and Their Post-blast Residues via Gas Chromatography

Coupled with Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, February 2019

JV Goodpaster. “Coupling Gas Chromatography (GC) and Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Spectroscopy for

Forensic Applications,” Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, NIJ Webinar, April 2019

JV Goodpaster. “Species and Age Determination of Blow Fly Pupae Based upon Headspace Analysis,

headspace analysis,” Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, NIJ Webinar, October 2018

A Rael, M Rydberg, JV Goodpaster. “Towards low activity silica gas-solid 20 micrometer micropacked

capillary gas chromatography,” Indiana University-Purdue University Student Research Day, Indianapolis,

IN, April 12, 2019

K Davis, JV Goodpaster. “An Overview of Total Vaporization – Solid Phase Microextraction and its Forensic

Applications,” American Chemical Society: Think Like a Molecule Symposium, Indianapolis, IN April 5, 2019

K Davis, JV Goodpaster. “An Overview of Total Vaporization – Solid Phase Microextraction and its Forensic

Applications”, Pittsburg Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 19, 2019

K Davis, JV Goodpaster. “Detection of Various Drugs in Human Urine Samples Via Total Vaporization –

Solid Phase Microextraction,” American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Scientific Meeting, Baltimore,

MD, February 20, 2019

K Davis, JV Goodpaster. “Methods and Applications for Total Vaporization – Solid Phase Microextraction

(TV-SPME),” Midwestern Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference, East Lansing, MI, November 16,

2018

K Davis, JV Goodpaster. “Detection of Drugs in Various Matrices Via Total Vaporization – Solid Phase

Microextraction”, Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists, Indianapolis, IN, September 19, 2018

K Davis, JV Goodpaster. “Detection and Monitoring of Compounds used in Drug Facilitated Sexual

Assaults,” IUPUI Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, July 20, 2018

Dr. Christine Picard

CJ Picard, CG Ow ings, W Gilhooly III, C Skaggs, N Manicke, A Banerjee. “A multidisciplinary

approach to a spatially and temporally explicit model of vertebrate ecosystem community structure using

carrion insects,” Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, August 2018

WP Gilhooly III, J Harris, A Bosco-Santos, BA Steinman, E Crane, CJ Picard, M O’Beirne, J Werne. “The

chemical and biological evolution of a meromictic lake, Washington, USA,” Goldschmidt Conference, Boston,

MA, August 12-17, 2018

Faculty & Staff

CJ Picard. “Forensic entomology in the genomics era: how little we know with so much data,” IUPUI

Forensic and Investigative Sciences Seminar Series, Indianapolis, IN, August 27, 2018

CJ Picard. “Forensic entomology in the genomics era: how little we know with so much data,” Valparaiso

University Seminar Series, Valparaiso, IN, September 10, 2018

I Koltsidou, C Howard, CJ Picard, G Druschel. “Midwest Geobiology 2018 Conference,” Northwestern

University, Evanston, IL, October 6, 2018

CG Owings, CJ Picard. Graduate Student Show case, Entom ological Society of Am erica Annual

Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 11-14, 2018

H Kelstrup, V Emery, CJ Picard, D Carper , J Morales-Ramos, G Rojas. “Breeding and genomics of the

yellow mealworm, a feed insect,” Plant and Animal Genome Conference PAG XXVII, San Diego, CA January

12-16, 2019

K Turner, AA Andere, CJ Picard. “Phormia regina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) genetic diversity across the

United States” 2019 ESA North Central Branch (ESA-NCB) Meeting, Cincinnati, OH March 17-20, 2019

L Doll, CJ Picard. “Molecular Evolution of Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae),” 2019 ESA North

Central Branch (ESA-NCB) Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, March 17-20, 2019

AA Andere, CJ Picard. “Genetic structure of the putative sex determination system in a monogenic blow fly

(Chrysomya rufifacies),” 2019 ESA North Central Branch (ESA-NCB) Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, March 17-20,

2019

CG Owings, WP Gilhooly, CJ Picard. “Stable isotope analysis reveals larval diet of the adult black blow fly

Phormia regina Meigen (Diptera: Calliphoridae),” 2019 ESA North Central Branch (ESA-NCB) Meeting,

Cincinnati, OH, March 17-20, 2019.

Prof. Gina Londino-Smolar

GM Londino, DL Sturek. "Establishing a Culture of Academ ic Integr ity at an Urban

Univeristy,” International Center of Academic Integrity Conference, International Center of Academic

Integrity, New Orleans, March 9, 2019

GM Londino, C Hansel, J Sanders. "Creating a digital learning com m unity to cultivate

academic integrity,” Online Learning Consortium, Orlando, FL, November 15, 2018

GM Londino, K Wendeln. "Creating a Culture of Change for Academic at IUPUI," FALCON, FACET and

Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, November 10, 2018

GM Londino, C Hansel, C Yildir im . "Creating a digital learning com m unity to cultivate academic integrity," IU Online Conference, Indianapolis, IN, November 9, 2018

GM Londino. "The Truth about Trace Evidence," , Indiana Medical History Museum ,

Indianapolis, IN, April 3, 2019

GM Londino. "Every Contact Leaves a Trace," Science on Tap, School of Science, Indianapolis,

IN, January 17, 2019

GM Londino. "IU Online Pre-Conference Workshop," IU Online Conference, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, November 8, 2018

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Susan Walsh

N Herrick, Susan Walsh. “The Search For Quantitative Iris Pigmentation Markers Using Automation in

Genome-Wide Association Studies: From Phenotype to Genotype,” American Society of Human Genetics

(ASHG), San Diego,CA, 10/18/2018

R Eller, Susan Walsh. “Tissue Transcriptomics: Potential for Postmortem Interval Predictions, American

Society of Human Genetics (ASHG),” San Diego,CA, 10/18/2018

Susan Walsh. “The Prediction of Human Physical Appearance from DNA,” Department of Biology, Wabash

College, IN, 3/19/2019

Susan Walsh. “The Modeling of Human Physical Appearance Prediction from DNA,” IU School of

Informatics, Bloomington, IN, 11/18/2019

Susan Walsh. “Research Overview Presentation on Human Physical Appearance Prediction from DNA,”

IUPUI School of Science, Indianapolis, IN, 11/18/2019

Susan Walsh. “Human Physical Appearance Prediction from DNA,” Department of Anthropology,

University of Chicago-Urbana Champaign, IL, 11/18/2019

Susan Walsh. “Discussion Leader: Age, Appearance and Ancestry,” Gordon Research Conference, Sunday

River, Maine, 9/18/2019

All Walsh lab. “Phenotyping Workshop,” MAFS Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 11/18/2019

Dr. Nicholas Manicke

N Manicke. "New Mass Spectrom etry Approaches for Applications in Clinical Chem istry,

Defense, and Forensics," Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Society for Mass Spectrometry, Hafjell, Norway,

2019

C Skaggs, N Manicke. "Chem ical Assay for the Detection of Vertebrae Fecal Metabolites in

Adult Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)," ACS Spring National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2018

S Dowling, N Manicke. "Detection of Fentanyl and Its Analogs in Soil via Paper Spray Mass

Spectrometry,” 2018 Turkey Run Analytical Conference, Marshall, IN, 2018

N Manicke. "Developm ent of Mass Spectrom etry Cartr idge for Sensitive Detection of Target

Protein Using On-Cartridge Digestion,” 2018 ASMS Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, San Diego,

CA, 2018

C Skaggs, N Manicke. "LC-MS/MS Detects Urobilinoids from Feces in Fly Guts,” 2018 ASMS Annual

Conference on Mass Spectrometry, San Diego, CA, 2018


Defense, and Forensics,” Departmental Seminar - Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech, Chemistry Department,

Atlanta, GA, 2018


Defense, and Forensics,” Departmental Seminar - Maryland, University of Maryland - College Park

Department of Chemistry, College Park, MD, 2018

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C Skaggs, N Manicke. "Optim ization of Design Parameters for the Detection of Am picillin in

Dried Plasma Spots Using Paper Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (PSI-MS),” 2018 Midwestern

Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference, Lansing, MI, 2018

C Skaggs, N Manicke. "Optim ization of Design Parameters for the Detection of Am picillin in

Dried Plasma Spots Using Paper Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (PSI-MS),” 2018 Turkey Run Analytical

Conference, Marshall, IN, 2018

W Wichert, N Manicke. "Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Proteins from

Contaminated,” 2018 Midwestern Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference, Lansing, MI, 2018

N Manicke. "Post-Mortem Drug Screening using Paper Spray High Resolution Tandem Mass

Spectrometry,” Pittcon 2018, National Institute of Justice, Orlando, FL, 2018

G Ren, N Manicke. "Rapid Screening of New Synthetic Drugs in Plasm a Samples Using Paper

Spray Mass Spectrometry with Integrated Solid-Phase Extraction Cartridge,” 2018 Midwestern Universities

Analytical Chemistry Conference, Lansing, MI, 2018

G Ren, N Manicke. "Rapid Screening of New Synthetic Drugs in Plasm a Samples Using Paper

Spray Mass Spectrometry with Integrated Solid-Phase Extraction Cartridge,” 2018 Turkey Run Analytical

Conference, Marshall, IN, 2018

N Manicke. "Screening Illicit Drugs in Oral Fluids and Plasm a Using Paper Spray Mass

Spectrometry,” 2018 ASMS Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, San Diego, CA, 2018

W Wichert, N Manicke. "Solid-Phase Extraction with Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry for Improving

Detection Limits of Chemical Warfare Agent Hydrolysis Products in Water Samples,” 2018 ASMS Annual


B Bills, N Manicke. "Studying and Modifying Paper Properties and to Im prove Detection Lim its

of Synthetic Cannabinoids and Fentanyl Using Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry,” 2018 ASMS Annual


B Bills, N Manicke. "Studying Paper Properties to Improve Detection Lim its of Synthetic

Cannabinoids and Fentanyl Using Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry,” Conference, Pittcon 2018, National

Institute of Justice, Orlando, FL, 2018

G Ren, N Manicke. "The Detection of Designer Drugs from Plasm a via Paper Spray Mass

Spectrometry,” Conference, 2018 ASMS Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, San Diego, CA, 2018

G Ren, N Manicke. "The Detection of Designer Drugs from Plasm a via Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry,” Conference, ACS Spring National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2018

Amy Maidi

A Maidi, C Zapata, L Vernon, M Patel, M Rust, M Kinney. “Be the Good: Crafting Time to Share and

Value One Another to Create Change,” IUPUI Welcoming Campus Conference, Indianapolis, IN, April 16,

2019

A Maidi. “Coaching Conversations at IU—Certification Process,” IUPUI JACADA Professional Development

Day, Indianapolis, IN, May 2, 2019

A Maidi, C Zapata, L Vernon, M Patel, M Kinney. “Be the Good: Agents of Change in Education,” All-

IU EDGE Conference, Indianapolis, IN, May 22, 2019

Faculty & Staff

Forest Dale Elementary Science Night

Prof. Gina Londino-Smolar organized FIS students to introduce forensic science to elementary children.

Dr. Christine Picard presented maggot art.

Community Service

Strawberry DNA

Cabbage Chromatography

and Volcano

Maggot Art

Fingerprints

Faculty & Staff

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Below is a sampling of places our undergraduate students have gotten employment:

Advanced Testing Laboratories

Agilent Technologies

AIT Laboratories

AIT Bioscience

Anheuser Busch Brewery (Missouri)

Arkansas State Police

AstraZeneca

Axis Forensic Toxicology

Belize National Forensic Science Service (Belize)

Bismarck Crime Laboratory (North Dakota)

BioStorage Technologies, Inc.

Bode Cellmark Forensics (Virginia)

Brooks Life Sciences

Buchi Laboratory Equipment (North Carolina)

Carrollton Police Department (Kentucky)

City of Columbus Division of Police (Ohio)

Clarksville Community School Corporation

(Kentucky)

Colorcon

Community Healthcare Systems

Covance Laboratories

Deaconess Health System

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA,

Maryland)

Dupage County Forensic Science Center (Illinois)

Eli Lilly and Company

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, DC)

Florida Department of Law Enforcement (Florida)

Fort Wayne Police Department

Heritage Crystal Clean

Indian River Crime Lab (Florida)

Indiana Blood Center


Indiana State Police Forensic Laboratory

Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services

Agency

Intertek PSI

Inworks (Colorado)

IU Simon Cancer Center

IU School of Medicine

Lancaster Laboratories

Lonza (Maryland)

Marion County Coroner's Office

Medical & Molecular Genetic (MMGE)

Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory (Ohio)

Mid America Clinical Laboratories

MiraVista Diagnostics

Pepsico

Perry Township Schools

Polaris Laboratories

Quintiles Laboratories

Raabe Company (Wisconsin)

Raybourn Group International

Roche Diagnostics

Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office

(California)

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

St. Charles County Sheriff's Department

(Missouri)

St. Vincent Health

Strand Analytical Laboratories

Texas Department of Public Safety (Texas)

Thermo Fisher Scientific

United States Drug Testing Laboratory (Illinois)

United Water

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

(Florida)

Van Nuys Medical Science Center

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Below is a sampling of places our undergraduate students have or are attending

graduate school.

Cornell University: Physician’s Assistant School

Drexel University: Physician’s Assistant School

George Washington University

Johns Hopkins

Indiana University Medical School

Indiana University Law School

Indiana University Higher Education and Student

Affairs Program

IUPUI: MS in Forensic Science

IUPUI: PhD in Chemistry

Marion University School of Osteopathy

Michigan State University

University of Colorado Denver: PhD in Biology

University of Indianapolis: STEM Teaching

Program

University of Illinois College of Law

University of Florida

University of Tennessee: PhD in Chemistry

Virginia Commonwealth University

Below is a sampling of places our graduate students have gotten employment.

Allegheny County (Pennsylvania)

Aria Diagnostics

Bexar County Criminal Investigation Laboratory

Butler University

Colorado Bureau of Investigation

Covance

Denver State Police

Dow AgroSciences

Eli Lilly and Company

Garden of Life (Florida)

Henry Ford Health Systems

Ideal Innovations, Inc. (Afghanistan)

Indiana State Department of Health

Indiana State Police Forensic Laboratory


Microbac Laboratory Services

Nebraska State Patrol

Ocean Optics (Florida)

Rhode Island Department of Health

South Texas College of Law

State of Colorado Biology Laboratory

Sun King Brewery

Texas Department of Public Safety

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